Planet and Space Vocabulary

 the spinning of an object on its axis

• Rotate

• Revolve

• Orbit

• Star

the path an object takes as it moves around another object that stays in place.

• Planet

• Solar System

• Revolve

• Orbit

A hugh ball of very hot gases

• Planet

• Solar System

• Star

• Galaxy

An imaginary line around Earth, equally distant from the North and South Pole

• Axis

• Orbit

• Equator

• Revolve

the sun and the objects in orbit around it, such as planets, moons, comets, and space.

• Sun

• Planet

• Constellation

• Solar System

A body that revolves around a star

• Planet

• Galaxy

• Universe

• Axis

An imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and its North and South pole

• Rotate

• Equator

• Axis

• Constellation

The star at the center of our solar system that provides thermal energy and light energy.

• Earth

• Sun

• Star

• Beatle Juice

events that happen over time in a special and predictable sequence.

• cycle

• energy

• cylinder

• model

to move in a circle or ellipse around a center; orbit.

• Rotate

• Planet

• Galaxy

• Revolve